By Cara Bertram
Title: Banquet File, 1948-2018
ID: 24/42/7
Primary Creator: Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)
Extent: 1.3 Cubic Feet
Arrangement: Chronological
Date Acquired: 00/00/2021
Subjects: Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC), Caldecott Award, Newbery-Caldecott Award Committee, Newbery-Caldecott Awards, Newbery Award
The Newbery-Caldecott Award Banquet File (1948-2018), including correspondence with publishers and winners, invitations to guest, seating charts, photographs, ticket examples, and scripts of remarks from the ALA and ALSC Presidents and committee chairs. The files include materials from 1948, 1952, 1954 to 1977, 1980 to 1981, 1985, and 1987 to 2018.
Additional files on the Newbery-Caldecott Banquet can be found in series 24/2/8.
The Association for Library Service to Children is responsible for the evaluation and selection of books and non-book library materials for the improvement of techniques of library service to children from preschool through eighth grade or junior high school age.
The Section for Library Work with Children was established in 1901 (1). On June 21, 1941, it merged with the Young People's Reading Round Table and the School Libraries Section to form the Division of Libraries for Children and Young People (2). In 1944 a part of its public library section became the Children's Library Association (3). It reached divisional status on January 1, 1957 (4) but retained the name Children's Library Association until January 28, 1958, when it became the Children's Library Services Division (5).
The Children's Library Services Division (CSD) is interested in the improvement and extension of library services to children in all types of libraries. CSD is responsible for the evaluation and selection of book and non-book library materials and the improvement of techniques of library services for children from preschool through the eighth grade or junior high school age, when such materials of techniques are intended for use in more than one type of library (6).
In 1977 CSD changed its name to Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) (7).
Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC)
Caldecott Award
Newbery-Caldecott Award Committee
Newbery-Caldecott Awards
Newbery Award
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/alasfa/2442007a.pdf
PDF finding aid for Banquet File (24/42/7)